Her Silver Lining

Shimmering silver highlights Flowing from her crown that teasing twinkle cast from the corner of her eye A smile sinfully lays Upon her lips 💋

JOY

J-Jesus O-Oath Y-equally yoked Jesus is his name we call him. Let’s picture the Covenant, and fifth oath. With a testimony. Gloriously to say, When he’s in favors. Of, Marriage’s. To become, Equally yoked.

Steel Magnolia Revisited

If only you had not had the child and your body was healthy, what wonders would have been in store for you and your honorable husband? How would your mother have felt without the platinum blonde baby boy bouncing in her lap or your dad’s…

Hour Three ~ Days are Hotter

Text Prompt Write a poem that repeats the same line three times, and then end on a variation of the repeated line. It could be a little different, or vary different, depending on what serves the poem best.   Eversince the onset of Summer temperatures…

The Cookie Jar

The Cookie jar It is not an easy feat Being away from the Cookie jar My mouth seeks its fullness My eyes lust for its presence I try to restrain myself But find my legs walking towards it The Cookies in the Cookie jar It…

A River Trip

–after River by Esther Kinsky A middle-aged German woman lives on the outskirts of London. It’s an unattractive area and she knows no one. Eventually, she befriends the storekeepers in her neighborhood. Mostly she walks the tributaries of the great river. She loves taking pictures…

Big Bang 2

Then the black holes that we were (admit it) collided and pulled each other apart but you know how it goes with forces of nature or stubborn personalities they never really win so I was shot out in a gamma burst of an argument lightyears…

Champlain Towers

The expanse of the Atlantic, A tin house like an aberration. The cabana to change your clothes, considering how to hide your car keys when you walk out to the ocean. A sinkhole, a marvel of nature, human negligence in Surfside. We used to drive…

The Harshest Blow

POEM 08 Scout and Jem spent that summer smothered in the heat and sweltering indifference of consuming hate and racial division. One man, their father stood in the gap and represented innocence, never needing to lie. He garnered a certain respect from many, but a…

Foreign

Someone I wasn’t before I came here imagining another version from this place, of myself or someone else entirely how would I be different would I like the parts I have now or new ones would I hate the sight of an American tourist traipsing…